Here’s what you got for voting Republican

Wednesday

Mar 26, 2014 at 12:01 AMMar 26, 2014 at 3:17 PM

If you voted for a Republican in North Carolina that vote denied 500,000 citizens health insurance and forced them to use expensive emergency rooms. If you vote for a Republican, you are voting to end grandma’s Social Security benefit check and reducing grandpa’s Medicare insurance. If you vote for a Republican you are voting for auntie to lose affordable cancer treatments. You are voting to end the Affordable Care Act, healthcare insurance for millions. When you vote for a Republican, preventive healthcare insurance ends. Without the ACA, bankruptcies will increase because of healthcare bills. A vote for a Republican means people with pre-existing conditions can be denied healthcare insurance. When you vote for a Republican you are voting to end the most comprehensive reform of our private health insurance market in decades.

When you vote for Republicans you are voting to end student and parent loans for college students. When you vote Republican in 2014 you are voting for a decline in rebuilding our infrastructure, including the 45 percent of bridges in N.C. that are now labelled as needing immediate repair. You will be voting to continue to allow corporations to pollute our water and air. A Republican vote guarantees the corporate war machine will demand that wars begin and continue. They have pushed for war in Syria, Iran, North Korea and now with Russia. A vote, any GOP vote, is an assault on all the government agencies that protect our food, water, clean air, safe drugs, schools, safe working conditions, safe cars and trains and price gouging by corporations.

We have seen a concerted effort to hold this nation hostage to a right wing corporate agenda since President Obama was elected. Jobs bills have been ignored by the GOP-controlled House. They ignored the despair that Americans had been suffering during the worst economic decline since the Depression. They held up transportation bills that would have improved roads, bridges, airports, trains, and created jobs. They refused for years to pass the Farm Bill which resulted in farmers losing their government insurance which protected food producers from loses due to bad weather and droughts.

It is the direct result of a group of corporate GOP extremists controlling the House of Representatives, which slowed the economic recovery more than any other time in our history.